Textile regulation

PerkinElmer is helping the textile industry regulate the use of prohibited allergenic and toxic substances in garments with its high performance Optima ICP-OES systems. Swedish analytical company, Swerea IVF, is using the versatile and precision-engineered Optima ICP-OES 2100 to analyse exposure to residual metals from leading brands of jeans. The speed and accuracy of the Optima system is proving invaluable in the detection of low levels of heavy metals, including mercury and lead, which can have poor sample stability. Anders Blom, Swerea IVF, Sweden, comments, “We are very pleased with the Optima system from PerkinElmer. It is so simple and easy to run the analysis on undiluted samples and the detection limits are excellent.”